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<a href="index">Index</a>
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<h1><a id="user-content-backup-my-way" class="anchor" aria-hidden="true" href="#backup-my-way"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Backup my way</h1>
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<p>First thing first, I want to list my own devices, which I have through the years:</p>
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<li><del>Laptop Samsung NP300E4Z-S06VN (Old laptop which I give to my mom)</del></li>
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<li><del><a href="https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-vn/product-support/product/inspiron-15-3567-laptop/drivers" rel="nofollow">Laptop Dell Inspiron 15 3567</a> (My mom bought it for me when I go to college, I give it to my mom afterward)</del></li>
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<li><del><a href="https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/support-product/8841" rel="nofollow">Laptop Acer Nitro AN515-45</a> (Gaming laptop which I buy for gaming, I give it to my sister)</del></li>
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<li>MacBook Pro M1 2020 (My company laptop)</li>
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<li><del>Phone <a href="https://forum.xda-developers.com/c/lg-g3.3147/" rel="nofollow">LG G3</a> (Bought long time ago, now is a brick)</del></li>
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<li><del>Phone <a href="https://forum.xda-developers.com/c/xiaomi-redmi-6a.7881/" rel="nofollow">Xiaomi Redmi 6A</a> (I give it to my sister too)</del></li>
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<li>Phone <a href="https://forum.xda-developers.com/c/xiaomi-poco-x3-nfc.11523/" rel="nofollow">Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC</a> (Primary phone which I use daily)</li>
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<p>App/Service I use daily:</p>
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<li><a href="https://bitwarden.com/" rel="nofollow">Bitwarden</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://getaegis.app/" rel="nofollow">Aegis Authenticator</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://rclone.org/" rel="nofollow">Rclone</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://restic.net/" rel="nofollow">restic</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://tailscale.com/" rel="nofollow">Tailscale</a></li>
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<li>GitHub / GitLab</li>
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<li>Google Keep / Notion</li>
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<li>Google Drive (I use 200GB plan)</li>
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</ul>
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<p>The purpose is that I want my data to be safe, secure, and can be easily recovered if I lost some devices;
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or in the worst situation, I lost all.
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Because you know, it is hard to guess what is waiting for us in the future.</p>
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<p>There are 2 sections which I want to share, the first is <strong>How to backup</strong>, the second is <strong>Recover strategy</strong>.</p>
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<h2><a id="user-content-how-to-backup" class="anchor" aria-hidden="true" href="#how-to-backup"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>How to backup</h2>
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<p>Before I talk about backup, I want to talk about data.
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In specifically, which data should I backup?</p>
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<p>I use Arch Linux and macOS, primarily work in the terminal so I have too many dotfiles, for example, <code>~/.config/nvim/init.lua</code>.
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Each time I reinstall Arch Linux (I like it a lot), I need to reconfigure all the settings, and it is time-consuming.</p>
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<p>So for the DE and UI settings, I keep it as default as possible, unless it's getting in my way, I leave the default setting there and forget about it.
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The others are dotfiles, which I write my own <a href="https://github.com/haunt98/dotfiles">dotfiles tool</a> to backup and reconfigure easily and quickly.
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Also, I know that installing Arch Linux is not easy, despite I install it too many times (Like thousand times since I was in high school).
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Not because it is hard, but as life goes on, the <a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/installation_guide" rel="nofollow">official install guide</a> keeps getting new update and covering too many cases for my own personal use, so I write my own <a href="https://github.com/haunt98/til/blob/main/install-archlinux.md">guide</a> to quickly capture what I need to do.
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I back up all my dotfiles in GitHub and GitLab as I trust them both.
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Also as I travel the Internet, I discover <a href="https://codeberg.org/" rel="nofollow">Codeberg</a> and <a href="https://gitea.treehouse.systems/" rel="nofollow">Treehouse</a> and use them as another backup for git repo.</p>
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<p>So that is my dotfiles, for my regular data, like Wallpaper or Books, Images, I use Google Drive (Actually I pay for it).
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But the step: open the webpage, click the upload button and choose files seems boring and time-consuming.
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So I use Rclone, it supports Google Drive, One Drive and many providers but I only use Google Drive for now.
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The commands are simple:</p>
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<div class="highlight highlight-source-shell"><pre><span class="pl-c"><span class="pl-c">#</span> Sync from local to remote</span>
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rclone sync MyBooks remote:MyBooks -P --exclude .DS_Store
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<span class="pl-c"><span class="pl-c">#</span> Sync from remote to local</span>
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rclone sync remote:MyBooks MyBooks -P --exclude .DS_Store</pre></div>
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<p>Before you use Rclone to sync to Google Drive, you should read <a href="https://rclone.org/drive/" rel="nofollow">Google Drive rclone configuration</a> first.</p>
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<p>For private data, I use restic which can be used with Rclone:</p>
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<div class="highlight highlight-source-shell"><pre><span class="pl-c"><span class="pl-c">#</span> Init</span>
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restic -r rclone:remote:PrivateData init
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<span class="pl-c"><span class="pl-c">#</span> Backup</span>
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restic -r rclone:remote:PrivateData backup PrivateData
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<span class="pl-c"><span class="pl-c">#</span> Cleanup old backups</span>
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restic -r rclone:remote:PrivateData forget --keep-last 1 --prune
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<span class="pl-c"><span class="pl-c">#</span> Restore</span>
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restic -r rclone:remote:PrivateData restore latest --target <span class="pl-k">~</span></pre></div>
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<p>The next data is my passwords and my OTPs.
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These are the things which I'm scare to lose the most.
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First thing first, I enable 2-Step Verification for all of my important accounts, should use both OTP and phone method.</p>
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<p>I use Bitwarden for passwords (That is a long story, coming from Google Password manager to Firefox Lockwise and then settle down with Bitwarden) and Aegis for OTPs.
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The reason I choose Aegis, not Authy (I use Authy for so long but Aegis is definitely better) is because Aegis allows me to extract all the OTPs to a single file (Can be encrypted), which I use to transfer or backup easily.</p>
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<p>As long as Bitwarden provides free passwords stored, I use all of its apps, extensions so that I can easily sync passwords between laptops and phones.
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The thing I need to remember is the master password of Bitwarden in my head.</p>
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<p>With Aegis, I export the data, then sync it to Google Drive, also store it locally in my phone.</p>
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<p>The main problem here is the OTP, I can not store all of my OTPs in the cloud completely.
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Because if I want to access my OTPs in the cloud, I should log in, and then input my OTP, this is a circle, my friends.</p>
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<h2><a id="user-content-recovery-strategy" class="anchor" aria-hidden="true" href="#recovery-strategy"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Recovery strategy</h2>
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<p>There are many strategies that I process to react as if something strange is happening to my devices.</p>
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<p>If I lost my laptops, single laptop or all, do not panic as long as I have my phones.
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The OTPs are in there, the passwords are in Bitwarden cloud, other data is in Google Drive so nothing is lost here.</p>
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<p>If I lost my phone, but not my laptops, I use the OTPs which are stored locally in my laptops.</p>
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<p>In the worst situation, I lost everything, my laptops, my phone.
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The first step is to recover my SIM, then log in to Google account using the password and SMS OTP.
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After that, log in to Bitwarden account using the master password and OTP from Gmail, which I open previously.</p>
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<h2><a id="user-content-the-end" class="anchor" aria-hidden="true" href="#the-end"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>The end</h2>
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<p>This guide will be updated regularly I promise.</p>
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<a href="mailto:hauvipapro+posts@gmail.com"
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>Feel free to ask me via email</a
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<a rel="me" href="https://hachyderm.io/@haunguyen">Mastodon</a>
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